What's Barrington's village bird? The great blue heron. What's the symbol of the National Audubon Society? The great egret. That's all fine and dandy, but who's going to stick up for the smaller ...

Stealth, secrecy and patience – that is the hunting mode of a green heron, one of the many avian residents of Little Swamp Sanctuary in Shepherd, Michigan. Once called the green-backed heron, this ...

When Houston Audubon announced its first bird survey at Pearland's Shadow Creek Ranch Nature Trail, I decided this would be ...

The great egret had returned on a late July morning to hunt in the shallow pond that borders our backyard. This is the second time in 22 years that we have seen that species here, other than an ...

Green herons have become a fixture in Grand Forks. These smallish waders aren’t common, exactly, but they are easy to find along the coulee between 17th Avenue South and the railroad tracks. Much of ...

Invasive species such as cats, emerald ash borers, pigs, fire ants and hemlock woolly adelgids are causing changes to ...

Slowly working along the edge of the pond, casting a top-water lure for largemouth bass, I thought I was all alone until encountering another angler. That angler was none other than a green heron.

Woody Stephens got a shot of an osprey feeding its chick in its nest on Thurston Branch in Virginia Beach. “There are two nestlings that are getting bigger every day,” Stephens wrote. Benjamin Gerber ...

Their funny poses and striking colors make them entertaining to watch and fun to photograph. And as the climate continues to warm, green herons are spending more time in Alabama each year. “They’re a ...